This Douglas DC-3 shows up at your gate on a connecting flight. Would you board?
Sep 25, 2016, 6:34 am
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Sep 25, 2016, 4:37 pm
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I sure would. It would be nice if it the seating was paratroop webbing along the sides, and the "door" was a few more strips of the same.(The DC3 was well before the days of pressurized cabins.) It would be just like the old days.
Sep 25, 2016, 11:54 pm
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No brainer for me, as I'm the only pilot in the family yet the only one that hasn't flown on a DC-3.
My father used to commute from OGG to HNL and back. While he would normally catch a commercial flight daily, if time worked out, he would fly with a friend of the family that handled cargo operations between the islands using DC-3's. Some day I will get my chance.
My father used to commute from OGG to HNL and back. While he would normally catch a commercial flight daily, if time worked out, he would fly with a friend of the family that handled cargo operations between the islands using DC-3's. Some day I will get my chance.
Sep 26, 2016, 12:38 pm
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Hell yes!!
Related question: any Super Connies still out there flying? That was a truly gorgeous aircraft.
Related question: any Super Connies still out there flying? That was a truly gorgeous aircraft.
Sep 26, 2016, 2:48 pm
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My last time in a DC-3 was 19 ought 64. My cav unit flew from Kansas to the Mojave desert for jungle training. (If you have been in the service, you will not find this odd.)
As we were about to board the MATS flight (Super Connie I think) seargent with a clipboard says, "Flight too heavy. You, you, you, you, you. Yer flyin' commercial."
In full kit, packs, helmets, weapons, we boarded a DC-3 local flight to Denver. This was really local. Landed in every flat spot in Kansas. After about 5 landings, the pilot came back for a snort. "Stewardess," said he, "Did you know there's a man up front with a faar-arm?" "Oh, there's five of them sir."
"Oh."
Pilot downed a stiff one and headed back to the cockpit.
As we were about to board the MATS flight (Super Connie I think) seargent with a clipboard says, "Flight too heavy. You, you, you, you, you. Yer flyin' commercial."
In full kit, packs, helmets, weapons, we boarded a DC-3 local flight to Denver. This was really local. Landed in every flat spot in Kansas. After about 5 landings, the pilot came back for a snort. "Stewardess," said he, "Did you know there's a man up front with a faar-arm?" "Oh, there's five of them sir."
"Oh."
Pilot downed a stiff one and headed back to the cockpit.